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Liam_mac_g
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Username: Liam_mac_g
Post Number: 46
Registered: 04-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 06:05 pm: |     |
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Lughaidh
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Username: Lughaidh
Post Number: 3700
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 07:33 am: | |
You've given twice the same link... about the Blaskets.
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Liam_mac_g
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Username: Liam_mac_g
Post Number: 47
Registered: 04-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 08:06 am: | |
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Danny2007
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Username: Danny2007
Post Number: 582
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 03:09 pm: | |
I've seen those clips before.
I don't understand the reference to 'when the priests were beheaded' by one of the men in the Blasket segment, though. Can anyone explain?
'They were being chased so that they would be beheaded'.
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When I worked in Dún Chaoin in 2008, my employer said that the last adults who had been born and raised on the Great Blasket (and then resettled in Dún Chaoin) had died just a few years earlier. Two brothers. Perhaps it was two of these Ó Dálaigh brothers?
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Suaimhneas
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Username: Suaimhneas
Post Number: 533
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 05:54 pm: | |
Danny
I'd imagine Sean's reference is to the Penal Times, when there was a bounty on the head of a priest. They probably hid out in the islands. (Mind you, note the twinkle in his eye as he relates the tale to Doireann Ni Bhrian)
By the way, if you travel on the Luas tram in Dublin, you will hear the same Doireann announcing each stop.
I think that some of the islanders are still alive. A friend of mine is a godchild of one the islanders, and I'm sure she is still hale and hearty. I'll check |
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Danny2007
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Username: Danny2007
Post Number: 583
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, November 13, 2010 - 12:24 am: | |
Interesting.
There are definitely people alive today who were born on the Great Blasket, but I was told that none of those who were already adults when it was finally abandoned in the 50s are still around, although they could've been wrong.
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Suaimhneas
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Username: Suaimhneas
Post Number: 536
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 13, 2010 - 11:52 am: | |
The lady I am thinking of was a child when she left the island |
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